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How Twitter can ruin a life
Vox ^ | 06/30/2021 | Emily VanDerWerff

Posted on 07/04/2021 8:17:03 AM PDT by tbw2

How Twitter can ruin a life

Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.

As a trans woman early in transition, Fall had the option of retreating to the relative safety of her legal, masculine identity. That’s what she did, staying out of the limelight and growing ever more frustrated by what had happened to her. She bristles when I ask her in an email if she’s stopped transitioning, but it’s the only phrase I can think of to describe how the situation appears.

Isabel Fall was on a path to becoming herself, and then she wasn’t — and all because she published a short story. And then her life fell apart.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; sciencefiction; socialjustice
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To: Clioman

I noticed that wikipedia insults people who use the attack helicopter meme by accusing them of being gay. How progressive of it.


41 posted on 07/04/2021 11:31:17 AM PDT by Catholic and Conservative
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To: RBW in PA

It sounds like your daughter is knowingly doing harm in her position as prosecutor and *should* lose her job.


42 posted on 07/04/2021 11:38:19 AM PDT by Catholic and Conservative
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To: Flick Lives

Well at least you didn’t identify as a Saturn V. Freudians need not respond.


43 posted on 07/04/2021 11:40:39 AM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Catholic and Conservative
Should be titled “How Twitter Idiots Can Save a Life”. After the cancel mob said that the story was clearly not written by a woman, the guy at least paused his progression towards getting himself castrated.

Amen to that! God moves in mysterious ways!

44 posted on 07/04/2021 2:25:26 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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